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Well if it fits you are miles infront of my experience. I don't have a problem with any of their welding it all looks good. Speedholes. Good work. Just make sure you touch up the exposed metal with some zinc rich primer. Good work with the chassis rails too. Whats the secret?

1982. Loud & proud.

Yeah I like them because you get oil cooling at standstill which is something you can't get from an oil/air unit. Plus you can bin all the nonsense around the filter that Nissan provided. There are only two downside that I can think of: 1. Its PWR so ofcourse it will get fabricated right the first time. On time too. 2. A 57mm radiator is alot of weight well forward that you need to lug about. Compared to the stock radiator anyway.

It isn't so much the rolling diameter as the fact that if you put a smaller tyre on the front your R32/33/34 will understeer like a pig on the track. Worse than it usually does in fact. With regard to tyre wear the fronts wear quicker than the rears. Which tells you all you need to know about weight distribution.

I always worry a bit about dry cells quoting CCAs. Half the time they give you some other number that is not directly comparable, ie sounds like CCA but is some other measure. Braille quote proper CCA's but not all manufacturers do. I will have to look into getting one if/when my Deka dies. The 15AH capacity of the Braille unit may need an eye kept on it. There again my Deka at 31AH appears to last for ages before it gives up the ghost. Good call with the radiator mounted oil cooler. Would have done the same (maybe) if I could have got one in a 40mm. Much neater than stuffing about with a seperate unit. Also leaves room for a CAI on the passengers side.

Bulb = globe. So without me going to check does the TPS check out as the manual says it should?

The existence of the Holden Camira (Wheels Car Of the Year, no less ) can be explained quite simply. It is what happens when a corpulent, out of touch car company decides it needs a new small/medium sized car. Then designs something that may have been half decent were it not so the fact they couldn't design/manufacture a ham sandwich to spec. As dreadful as the Camira was, you should check out the Cadillac version. See here: http://wikicars.org/en/Cadillac_Cimarron http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...mages&gbv=2 Perhaps even more scary was the Daewoo version foisted on poor, unsuspecting punters years after the Camira had been euthanaised. None of which explains the Toyota Camry. The anti car if ever there was one.

Nice work. Couple quick questions: What size Braille battery have you got & WTF is it still doing in the engine bay? Did the shrouding to the sides of the stock radiator fit on the PWR one? Looks to be the 57mm version is it?

Yes the 1990 ATCC was basically won in an R31. Mostly it was due to the unreliability of the DJR Sierras rather than the speed of Freddo's cars. The R31 started out with approx 370hp in 1988 & evolved to a reputed 460hp in 89. Their finishing record in endurance racing was lamentable. Mostly it involved gearboxes giving up the ghost. From memory they did Bathurst twice in the R31 - 2 x DNF in 1988 & then in 1989 3rd & 4th (albeit a lap down). At Sandown in 1988 they had 2 cars DNF, in 1989 they managed 1st & 3rd for their only win & in 1990 they didn't bother to turn up. Ofcourse the R32 ran at Bathurst in 1990. But if DNF'd there too.

Well said Baron. Also if you want a track wheel/tyre package there are MUCH cheaper ways to go about it than using R34 rims. Try a 255/40/17 on a 17*9 rim. It will be $500 cheaper for the R comp tyres alone. Just be aware a RE55 in that size will scrape on the rear with a +22 offset. You may get away with it with more offset eg an R33 Gtr rim but trackwidth is not something you should just give away if you can at all help it. Something to think about, anyway.

Remove the tps sensor, give it a clean & replace it. If that fails try swapping out the sensor with a known good one. Is there a globe in the dashboard for the fault light?

You won't see it. It was a support race for the Australian Grand Prix - at Adelaide. Channel 9 may have broadcast it, but I doubt it. The car was comprehensively fkd. The right front corner all squashed in & the roof somehwat lower than it should be. Inside the car bars are all bent & busted. The Group A cars were governed by tight rules with regard to turbos. Also the turbo tech in the early 90's was nowhere near as good as now. In any case the gearboxes on the r31's were rubbish - a very common cause of DNF's. They would not have handled any more horsepower than they had - arguably the couldn't handle that properly anyway.

Oh dear. Look it is all bollocks. At Wanneroo: The fastest lap time in the 1990 race was Jim Richards at 60.3 seconds. In 1991 it was Mark Skaife with a 60.42. In 1992 Jim again with 59.71. These days the V8's get around the track in a much quicker time. In last years final race (ie when everyones control tyres are stuffed) the winner (Winterbottom) managed a 57.7 second lap. He qualified with a 56.4. The reality is that at just about any circuit in Australia the Gt-Rs times would put it on the last row of a present day V8 grid. The other thing you will notice about the old race fottage is how few cars there are in it.... Look I love the GT-R's as much as anyone. Hell I own one. But lets not be too sentimental about Group A racing - the racing was mostly rubbish. Usually nothing would happen until Tony Longhurst (BMW M3) would punt John Bowe (Ford Sierra) off the circuit when his tyres went away. The only reason the 1991 race time record still stands is you get a safety car about every ten laps these days. The old record stays because a quirk of fate meant they didn't get many safety cars in 1991. Unlike 1992, for instance. Lastly 650rwhp? Where did that number sprout from? No one has ever claimed the Group A cars ran that kind of horsepower.

Been having a search around the site & there appear to be plenty of Targa Tassie & other random in car Youtube offerings from SAU members. The does appear to be a lack of in car videos from circuits, however. It would probably be illuminating if people could list the circuit, the car, driver & lap time (if you want) & perhaps the camera type/set up if that is your thing. Anyway to start off: Circuit: Collie circuit Car: R32 Skyline GT-R. Driver: Given the observations about dark nights & driving out of sight I guess that would be me. Lap time: 50.15 seconds. Camera: Old Canon point & click mounted on the parcel shelf. Link:

Ferrari have used the "we are taking our bat & ball & going home" trick before. It is how they screwed a disproportionately large amount of money out of the previous Concorde agreement. It meant they recevied more for winning a championship than any other team would have. Which is pretty wrong. The difference then compared to now is Ferrari had an almost viable alternative ie Indycars. Now there is none. So yes F1 needs Ferrari. But I suspect Ferrari needs F1 more.

You may actually get away without paying tax on them. I,err, someone I had a passing acquaintance with didn't get slugged for import duty. The downside is you have to be prepared to wait. Mine took quite a few months (yes months) but when I did get them the date of manufacture was two weeks old, ie it was a case of Nengun waiting for Rays to make them.

For the love of god, Albany to Perth & back is a day trip at most. Fkn Perthies. The road is fine. Yes there are a few coppers on the road, mostly around Mt Barker & then closer to Albany. Remember though, it is the content of the fuel tank that determines when the next stop will be, not the content of the weakest bladder in the car.

Look, with all due respect Motul RBF 600 and/or 660 IS A DOT 4 FLUID. It is therefore compatible with other dot 4 fluids. There is no good reason to use dot 5.1 fluids, Motul or otherwise. The dot 4-600 range perform better, ie have a higher boiling point. The hint is that the 600 (or 660) term in the title is a reference to its boiling point in degrees fahrenheit. The reference is here: http://www.motul.com.au/product_line_up/fo...s/others04.html http://www.motul.com.au/product_line_up/fo...s/others03.html Fresh fluid (of almost any description) is as good as tired RBF600 fluid. You lose approx 100 degrees celcius out of the boiling point when the fluid is old & wet.

The guage doesn't understand how shagged your attessa system may or may not be. It assumes it is working perfectly & displays how much front torque you would have if the system was working properly & the motoro was standard. What frequently happens with Gt-Rs is the clutches in the attessa system wear. This causes the clearances in the system to become out of tolerance & you get a slow reacting system - ie more rear wheel torque than it should have. Given the system is old, slow to react & calibrated for a stock motor it is quite easy to end up where you are ie with a GTR driving like a GTST.

Yeah well whatever Max & Bernie are smoking they should stop it. The engine proposals they keep coming up with get more & more strange by the week. No they are after something called a universal engine which is to be used across categories. I have always been a fan of Bernies but I think he has finally lost it.

The Cosworth V8 that Williams used a couple years back pulled 20,000rpm not long after it first ran. Mostly the engine freeze meant alot of very talented people got sacked.

See, I told you Collie is a fun circuit. Did you run on Saturday arvo aswell? It was a good day for times. I think all the GT-Rs ran PB's Greg did well too.

Its the Herald Sun. What do you expect? Good journalism?

IMHO anything weighing in at over 1400 kgs in track car terms is heavy. So, by that measure, an R35 GT-R is heavy. But so is every other GT-R going back to the 32. The unavoidable reality is that weight has a performance penalty. Just as high moments of inertia, a high centres of gravity, a high drag coefficient & a large frontal cross section. The other unavoidable reality is that a strong, stiff (the two are different) body structure has a weight penalty. As do airbags, climate control aircon, doof doof stereos, 20" rims etc etc etc. But the car would probably not be very saleable without these things. The R35 in absolute terms is a wonderful performance car & is priced well. But it can also be said to be a triumph of engineering over obesity. Quite how quick it will be with less weight is an interesting prospect.

How well did they fit up & are they ok with aftermarket castor rods?